Using IMAP as POP, fetching from multiple folders?

Using IMAP as POP, fetching from multiple folders?

[Adam Sjøgren]

  Hi.


I am using IMAP-as-POP (i.e. downloading all new emails via IMAP and
handling them locally in nnml). This suits me well.

After getting a phone that handles email, I need to do some server side
splitting - but I want to keep my IMAP-as-POP setup.

Looking at the manual for Mail Sources under "imap", I find:

  ":mailbox

      The name of the mailbox to get mail from. The default is ‘INBOX’
      which normally is the mailbox which receives incoming mail."

Is it possible to specify multiple mailboxes here? If so: What is the
syntax?

(I tried ("INBOX" "Test") and "INBOX Test", neither of which
worked; I got errors like this:

  "Mail source (imap :server MAILSERVER :stream ssl :fetchflag \Seen :mailbox (Inbox Test)) error (stringp)."

  "Mail source (imap :server MAILSERVER :stream ssl :fetchflag \Seen :mailbox Inbox Test) error (IMAP error: "Inbox Test" doesn't exist.)."
).


  Best regards,

    Adam, keeping email old school since the 90s.

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Re: Using IMAP as POP, fetching from multiple folders?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Adam writes:

> Is it possible to specify multiple mailboxes here? If so: What is the
> syntax?

I realized, as I pressed C-c C-c on that previous email, that I may be
able to get what I want by simply adding a mail source per folder
(mailbox). Hm.

Is that the solution?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: Using IMAP as POP, fetching from multiple folders?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Adam writes:

> Adam writes:

>> Is it possible to specify multiple mailboxes here? If so: What is the
>> syntax?

> I realized, as I pressed C-c C-c on that previous email, that I may be
> able to get what I want by simply adding a mail source per folder
> (mailbox). Hm.

> Is that the solution?

Well, it works. But it is slow, authenticating once per folder, so it
would be much nicer to be able to specify multiple mailboxes to "suck"
from.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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